Design Regret Confess
“Design. Regret. Confess.” is an interactive installation that transforms a delivery truck into a mobile confession booth for the design community. Operating throughout Melbourne Design Week for 11 consecutive days, it invites designers to anonymously share their professional failures, ethical compromises, and career disasters—creating a powerful counter-narrative to design’s typically polished public face. Using AI-powered voice recognition, confessions are captured, anonymized, and displayed briefly on a digital screen before disappearing forever. The project was presented by Chris Speed and Liam Fennessy alongside collaborators Miek Dunbar, exploring the tensions between design’s polished exteriors and its dirty interiors. Collected stories are compiled into a limited-edition publication printed with UV-unstable ink, symbolising both the erasure of failures and the ephemeral nature of design work. Free and accessible to all, the installation celebrates design’s capacity for both triumph and disaster, making space for honest dialogue within the creative community.
https://designregretconfess.com
